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Percival Everett’s “James” Receives National Book Award for Retelling of Hunk Finn

Last night, the new book James by Percival Everett won the National Book Award for Fiction. The book is a retelling of  Mark Twain’s “Adventures…

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Harriet Tubman & Thomas Garrett Statue in Wilmington, Delaware

For the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the citizens of Wilmington, Delaware erected a new statue in the revived Riverfront Park along the Christina River…

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The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery by John Swanson Jacobs

Jacobs, John Swanson. The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography by…

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Kentuckian Episcopalians Ask Church to Denounce Civil War Leader Rev. James Craik

Rev. James Craik was an important figure in the Episcopal church in the United States at the time of the Civil War. He was an…

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Harriet Jacobs’s Brother’s “Slave Narrative” Comes to Light After Being Lost for 164 Years

In today’s New York Times Jennifer Schuessler tells the story of a long-lost “slave narrative” that was just published by the University of Chicago Press….

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Frederick Douglass Statue at New-York Historical Society

Frederick Douglass stands at the top of a stair leading into the New-York Historical Society. The statue was installed in 2011 just as the United…

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Podcast on Attempt to Create an Underground Railroad Video Game in 1993

The podcast Decoder Ring has an interesting and troubling story about the attempt to create a video game about the Underground Railroad. This was not…

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Historian David Blight Will Offer Free Series of Lectures on Slavery at Yale Open to Public

The Yale News announced that noted historian David Blight will give a free series of lectures on slavery. Here is the announcement: David W. Blight,…

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James: A Novel by Percival Everett

James: A Novel by Percival Everett published by Doubleday (2024) I read a lot of books. Right before my stroke, I was reading more than…

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Chappaqua Friends Meeting House a Refuge for Escaped Slaves

The Chappaqua Friends Meeting was built in 1753 by a group of transplanted Long Islanders who set up the first Quaker community in Westchester County…

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